Delta 4925-8 launched Marcopolo 1 (BSB-1A), the first British Satellite Broadcasting direct-broadcast satellite, from Cape Canaveral. The HS-376-based spacecraft was positioned at 31 degrees West to beam DBS television service to the UK.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Delta 4925-8 flights
- Date and time
- 27 August 1989, 22:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 4925-8
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-067
- Launches in 1989
- 68th of 102
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